Merger and acquisition (M&A) have become a foremost strategic alliance for business,
product and geographic tactics in global market. Using meta-literature review, we conduct a …

Because of the potentially large and important effects of the extremely ambitious Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI) launched by China in late 2013, considerable attention has been given …

While foreign direct investment (FDI) is known to be the most stable type of international
capital flows, it may be particularly susceptible to heightened uncertainty because of its high …

This paper reviews the different concepts of measuring activities of multinational
corporations. It aims at working out the economic relationships that theoretically exist …

We study the impact of the 2016 Brexit referendum on UK foreign direct investment. Using
the synthetic control method to construct appropriate counterfactuals, we show that by March …

We explore the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth, distinguishing
between mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and “greenfield” investment. A simple model …

We examine the effect of uncertainty on foreign direct investment inflows for advanced,
emerging market and developing countries over a 25‐year long (pre‐Covid) sample. Using …

Outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) by firms from developing countries1 has grown
dramatically in recent years, accounting for nearly onefifth of global foreign direct investment …

Most analyses of the impact of heterogeneous environmental policy stringency on the
location of industrial firms have considered the relocation of entire activities–the well-known …

We develop a model of cross-border acquisitions in which the foreign acquirer's ownership
choice reflects a trade-off between easing the target's credit constraints and the costs of …